Re: Runnig solaris binary(32 bit) on linux(64 bit)

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2023-02-16 at 09:29 -1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 2/16/23 09:02, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > It wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to extend qemu-user to support the
> > similar personality variations for SCO/Solaris/etc. using that as a
> > guide.
> 
> Not beyond wit but perhaps beyond patience.
> 
> It would certainly be possible to emulate the "easy middle" of one POSIX 
> guest on a 
> different POSIX host.  But the dusty corners are going to get in the way, 
> where we 
> currently rely on guest and host having identical semantics, and pass the 
> system call 
> through to the host.
> 
> It's a big job.

True, but the existing iBCS / linux-abi kernel patches should highlight
a lot of those dusty corners.

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